Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Familiar Ghost
I thought to myself, but none of the ghosts in front of me took me seriously. It seems like I'm just a dispensable ghost who doesn't notice when I fuck off.
There is no way, people have to bow their heads under the eaves. When the ghost wedding party arrives, I am likely to see a large group of ghosts, and maybe there will be warm-hearted ghosts who can help me.
The four ghosts at the front of the team were jumping up and down silently, blowing suona in the air, and it was the first time I came to the underworld, and it was also the first time I saw ghosts welcoming relatives.
I can't use the experience of a living person to see the world of ghosts, maybe blowing suona without making a sound, is the custom of welcoming relatives in the underworld.
I carried the ingots and followed closely behind the welcoming team, walking and stopping, turning and turning, and walking out for at least five miles, the four ghosts in front finally put down the silent suona and stood quietly in place, and the whole team following behind immediately stopped.
"Hey, new kid."
"Ka Ka Ka ...... " the bald ghost in front of me turned his head one hundred and eighty degrees on the spot. When the bride comes out of the house and sees the door open, you close your eyes. This is the custom of the underworld. We all have to close, and when we get to the man's house and pick up the hijab, the bride can show us. You don't know if you're new, just do it. ”
"Okay, I got it! When the bride goes out, I close my eyes. Can ......"
"Ka ......" Just when I wondered how there was a bride's house in a weedy field in the wilderness here, the bald ghost turned his head back.
I looked around, and I wasn't suspicious, it was just a flat and open weedy field. The surrounding area is overgrown with weeds, and there is not even a grave, how can there be a bride's home.
"Hoo ......"
"Hoo ......"
Suddenly, several gusts of wind with aroma blew from different directions, east, west, north and south. At the same time, a white mist emerged from the ground twenty meters in front of our procession.
In the blink of an eye, this white fog with an area of 100 square meters thickly enveloped a large area in front of us.
"Hoo ......"
Another greater gust of wind swept from behind us, this wind had no taste, but it was faster and more violent, and rushed straight towards the huge white mist, and in the blink of an eye it blew all the white mist away.
But the next second the white fog disappeared, a courtyard rose out of thin air in front of us in an empty weedy field.
This courtyard is gray brick and red door, and the east and west are about ten zhang long. Two huge red lanterns hung under the eaves of the red lacquered gate, and a word was written on each in black pen and ink: Chen, Fu.
I am not surprised by the mansion that appeared out of thin air after the fog, this is the underworld, and it is not surprising that anything strange appears before my eyes.
"Squeak...... "The red lacquered door of the Chen Mansion was slowly pushed open from the inside.
"Do you want to close your eyes?" I whispered to the bald ghost in front of me.
"Wait, this is the matchmaker opening the door." It says.
As the bald ghost said, I saw from a distance the body of an old lady leaning out of the red door of Chen's mansion, needless to say, it was a ghost.
The light from the two red lanterns above the old lady's head reflected the outline of her whole person from head to toe.
One of the ghosts in the suona at the front of our team walked over with broken steps when he saw the door open. When they got to the door, the matchmaker whispered something to it. Immediately, the suona grimace smiled and turned around and waved in our direction.
"Didi, didi......" From the mouths of the suona ghosts who blew the air just now, the suona actually blew a sound.
They didn't make a sound on the way to welcome relatives just now, which may really be the custom of welcoming relatives in the underworld. Only when they arrived at the ghost bride's house and the matchmaker told the bride that the bride was willing to leave, they blew the suona sound.
Of course, this is just my random guess.
The sound of suona sounded, and the dozen or so ghosts standing in front of me carrying flags and sails also jumped up.
However, the next second they started jumping, I was shocked.
"Click......"
"Quack Quack ......"
These ghosts are waving beautiful flags in their hands, shaking and shaking, and some of them keep turning their heads in circles at 360 degrees.
There is also a ghost smiling, just at the moment of its laughter, the muscles on its face squeezed, and the two eyeballs fell out of the eye sockets together, and ......a long black tongue stretched out from its mouth at the same time, and sucked the falling eyeballs with a "smack". The flesh of the tongue brought them into the mouth, and the muscles of the face squeezed together in a strange position.
The two eyeballs of "Gollum ......" suddenly "grew" from the left and right eye sockets respectively.
"Giggle...... "It squeezed its eyes like this, amusing the two ghosts next to it at the same time.
Sister, what are these ghosts all doing?
I was in a daze, didn't these ghosts come to pick up their relatives, why did they stand on the weeds in the wilderness one by one to "play monkeys".
"New here, don't panic. We were invited by our in-laws to make trouble. When the bride comes out, you quickly close your eyes when our palanquin passes. Otherwise......"
The bald ghost pointed to me the ghost who had squeezed out his eyeballs and swallowed them, and then "grown" them back into his sockets from his mouth.
"It's the wife who peeked at other people's doors back then, and her eyes were cut out and cooked. Giggle...... "The bald ghost told me about the tragic past of the "blind ghost", and he actually laughed excitedly.
Damn, I've seen the coldness and ruthlessness of ghosts again.
"Sedan chair, come ......"
Suddenly, a voice came from the gate of Chen's mansion, and the suona ghost waved his hand to summon the sedan chair here.
Four sedan chairmen carried the red cloth sedan chair and ran to the gate of Chen's mansion. The ghost matchmaker took something out of the embroidered cloth bag in her hand, one by one, one by one, and one by one into the hands of the four sedan chair bearers.
The three suona ghosts here blew harder, and the door over there "squeaked", "Close your eyes, close your eyes quickly!" "I was about to see what came out of that door when the bald ghost suddenly reminded me to close my eyes.
This rule is really annoying, I am so easy to be lucky enough to see the kiss in the underworld, but I have to close my eyes and not look at the bride who has not passed through the door.
I shudder at the thought of that ghost being gouged out and cooked for peeking at the ghost bride. The coming day is long, and the female ghost bride will not be able to see her appearance after passing through the door.
I honestly closed my eyes, and there was the sound of a sedan chair falling to the ground, and then the sound of suona was loud again.
"The bride is in the sedan chair, open your eyes." The bald man said.
I quickly opened my eyes, and I suddenly had a crush on the bald ghost, because if I were to be replaced by the death row ghost who robbed me, maybe it would trick me into seeing the bride, and then my eyes would be cooked, and it would have no trouble robbing me again.
The suona ghosts in front were blowing suona, and the sedan chair ghost in the middle was excitedly carrying the sedan chair, and I followed behind the bald ghost.
Obviously, they are returning much faster than they came, and the expressions on their faces are lighter than they did when they came. I think it's a good opportunity for me to ask.
I hurried a few steps forward to catch up with the bald man with the bunting. Chat to start with chatter, look at its relaxed expression, I asked it what is your name, your master's place is far away, I first came to the underworld a lot of things I don't understand, I hope there is something I don't understand, I can ask you if you don't understand.
I chatted with it all the time, and the bald ghost obviously picked up the bride, and I was happy.
"Click......" It turned its head to me one hundred and eighty degrees and smiled weirdly at me.
"My name is Chen Li, and I died seven years ago. The newcomer will tell you the truth, I and the bride who got married today are brothers and sisters in our family. My surname is Chen, and she is also surnamed Chen. There are two uncles between us. I went to my master's house to work hard, but I didn't expect the young master of his family to fall in love with my cousin. ”
"I'm not in this welcoming procession, but my own cousin got married, and I'm happy to come. My master's surname is Wang, and he lives in Wanggui Village, which is three miles away from here. New here, what else do you want to ask? ”
Listening to the brief introduction of this ghost named Chen Li, I learned a little about it and its owner. Three miles away from its master's house, I wish I could talk to a few more warm-hearted ghosts at the lord's wedding banquet.
The so-called more people have great power, one more ghost friend will have one more way, and one more way can increase the clues to find Liu Xin.
I walked forward after the group, and the three-mile journey was very fast. At the bend in front of him, a courtyard more luxurious than the bride's Chen Mansion appeared.
"No, it's here. But the new one, it's still the same thing, if you attend the wedding banquet......"
When the bald ghost Chen Li was telling my guests to express themselves, I saw from a distance that there was a familiar figure among the ghosts waiting in line outside the Wang family's mansion to enter the courtyard.
The ghost's figure was sturdy, with a tiger's back and a dagger looming from his waist. And on its back, it was carrying my robbed backpack......